Mineral Wealth with First rankings

Mineral/Metal	State
Coal	Jharkhand
Bauxite (Aluminium Ore)	Orissa
Chromite (Chromium ore)	Orissa
Iron Ore	Orissa
Manganese	Orissa
Lead & Zinc	Rajasthan
Calcite (source of marble)	Rajasthan
Gypsum (used in fertiliser, plaster of paris etc.)	Rajasthan
Quartz	Rajasthan
Asbestos	Andhra Pradesh
Limestone	Andhra Pradesh
Mica	Andhra Pradesh
Barytes (used as weighting agent for drilling fluids in oil & gas exploration, barium is used in CT Scan)	Andhra Pradesh
Diamond	Madhya Pradesh
Copper Ore	Madhya Pradesh
Gold	Karnataka
Corundum (source of ruby, sapphire)	Maharashtra
Rock Salt	Himachal Pradesh
Crude Oil	Gujarat
Natural Gas	Assam/Nagaland

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